April 3, 2006An Impeachable OffenseeSupreme Court Let's Bush Get Away With Violating Constitution
The criminal charges do not match that claim. He is accused of being part of
a terror support cell that provided recruits, money and supplies to Islamic
extremists worldwide. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to be tried in
September.

April 3, 2006
White trash!Embattled
DeLay Quitting Congress
WASHINGTON (April 4) - Succumbing to scandal, former Majority Leader Tom Delay
intends to resign from Congress within weeks, closing out a career that blended
unflinching conservatism with a bare-knuckled political style.

April 3, 2006
What took him so long?Bill
Clinton's A Convert To Dean's 50-State Project
At a tense meeting in February, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid urged Dean to
give to the Senate committee the same amount as the Republican National
Committee was expected to transfer to the GOP's Senate committee. Reid argued
that the DSCC's historically rare fundraising advantage could be wiped out with
a single check from RNC chairman Ken Mehlman. If Republicans shuffled their
cash, Reid said, the outcome of several critical Senate races might be
jeopardized.

And Dean has one supremely important new ally who, when he goes public, will
almost certainly help with donors. In late February, Dean traveled to Harlem
and sat down with former President Bill Clinton, often said to be privately
disparaging of Dean.

But as Dean walked Clinton through his 50-state capacity-building project,
Clinton became a convert. He vowed to help Dean win the attention of
donors.

Until now, lawsuits brought by former detainees against top American
officials have focused attention on the maximum security unit of a federal
detention center in Brooklyn where the Justice Department's inspector general
found widespread abuse. But today in Toronto, as Mr. Sachdeva, a Canadian
citizen born in India, gives his first deposition for the class-action lawsuit,
the spotlight will shift to the New Jersey jail.

April 1, 2006
Pansies. ABC bashed President Clinton for eight solid years. They even lied
about Whitewater being a scandal, so they could push the GOP
agenda.ABC suspends
producer for bush bashing in PRIVATE email
ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good
Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used
inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.

n one of the e-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004
and leaked to the Drudge Report, Green wrote to a colleague on his BlackBerry:
"Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages'
line one more time, I'm going to puke."

April 1, 2006
Anyone who follows politics knows Israel receives most of our foreign aid.
Apparently stating this truth (and others) offends someone. Good grief. Harvard
keeps anti-truth and pro-torture professors like Dershowitz. Go figure.
Apparently Harvard thinks it's ok to support violating our anti torture
laws.Professor
Critical of Jewish Lobby Loses Job
A storm is looming in America over an article written by two professors. The
article that targets the Jewish lobby cost one of the professors his job at the
university for uncovering the impact of Israel on the policies the Washington
administration follows.

In his statement, Professor Stephan Walt, a Harvard dean, said he will
resign in June as he has been subject to severe criticism from the Jewish lobby
for co-writing an article with John Mearsheimer, a Chicago University
professor, over the Jewish lobby and over the US foreign politics.

April 1, 2006
Looks dismal. Methinks it's time to get the hell out of there.Shiite
leaders in Iraq turn against the U.S.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric
against the United States during Friday prayers, amid ongoing sectarian
violence and faltering talks over the creation of a new Iraqi government.

The occasionally vitriolic anti-American sermons, often delivered by clerics
close to the young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, were the latest sign of souring
relations between U.S. political and military leaders and the country's
majority sect, which initially welcomed the U.S. effort to topple the Sunni-led
regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

April 2, 2006
Prior to the Reagan tax cut just 25 years ago, we had less than one trillion
dollars of debt. Today, we have $8.3 trillion.Rising debt
is very scary
As Mr. Bush said shortly after he took office in 2001, when the debt was a
third lower: "Future generations shouldn't be forced to pay back money that we
have borrowed."

However, deficits have a way of hitting home in much more personal
terms.

If they continue to rise, they will crowd out investment, slow economic
growth and reduce the average family's annual income by $1,800 in just eight
years.

Government debt is also likely to drive up interest rates, making the
typical $250,000 mortgage, plus the interest that Americans pay on other
purchases, cost about $3,000 more a year.

Moreover, if we keep our current promises to the elderly, without reforming
entitlements, the average family would have to pay $7,000 a year more in taxes
by 2030.

April 2, 2006NY
Times Editorial Scalia Should Recuse Himself
Justice Scalia seemed to prejudge key issues in a momentous case involving the
rights of Gitmo detainees. That should have caused him to recuse himself when
the case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, was argued in the Supreme Court last Tuesday.
Unfortunately, he has not done so, in marked contrast to Chief Justice Roberts,
who is properly sitting out the case in light of his participation, before
becoming a justice, in the three-judge federal appellate panel that issued a
ruling on the same matter.

December 9, 2005, posted April 3, 2006
This quote in on a number of liberal blogs. I can't verify it, so do with it
what you want.Bush on the
Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous
provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the
President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet
Miers to the Supreme Court.

"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the
Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that
the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

April 1, 2006
I have my own theory. Republican voters (especially the right wing) want
politicians they can control. In other words they have to be ignorant or play
ignorant to get their votes.Why would a
man universally described as kind and
intelligent suddenly start acting like a dodo?
Presidential ambition, of course.
Frist, once esteemed as a citizen-politician, a heart- and lung-transplant
surgeon who spent part of each year donating his services in the most desperate
parts of Africa, has transformed himself into the ultimate political
opportunist. His moves—like last week's ludicrous attempt to hijack the
Senate's immigration debate and move it in a punitive, populist
direction—have been so clunky that he has lost the respect of his
colleagues, especially Republicans. (The Democrats are thrilled by his
ineptitude.) "I hear he was a pretty good surgeon," a Republican Senator said
last week when I asked how Frist had been as majority leader.

April 1, 2006Clerics:
Attack Troops to hasten US withdrawal
LONDON — Two years after U.S. authorities ceremoniously declared Iraq to
be sovereign again, top religious leaders say Iraqis remain under military
occupation, have a right to fight foreign troops and still don't govern
themselves.

Their statements, made at the conclusion of a peace conference in London on
Tuesday, provided a stamp of approval from Iraq's most influential Sunni and
Shiite Muslim clerics for their countrymen to step up attacks aimed at
hastening the withdrawal of U.S., British and other troops.

March 30, 2006Feingold: myth versus
reality
Myth: Congress needs to hold hearings on the NSA wiretapping program before a
measure like censure is discussed.

Fact: The Senate Judiciary Committee has held multiple hearings on the issue
despite the refusal of the administration to cooperate. Further hearings and
investigation are necessary but those hearings will not change the fact that
the President broke the law.

March 31, 2006
There are two solutions to Iraq. Get out and let it fall into full blown civil
war or take complete control of the country; write a new constitution, pick new
leaders and restore order - much like we did after WW2 in Japan and
Germany.Why is the
United States Picking a Fight with the Iraqi Shiite Community?
In a rebuff to Bush, Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani, was hand-delivered a letter earlier this week from the president
but it sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office. A key
al-Sistani aide said the letter reinforced the American position that Prime
Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari should not be given a second term. Al-Sistani has
not publicly taken sides in the dispute, but rather has called for Shiite
unity.

March 31, 2006
It's hard to argue with simple logic. Feingold exposes the hypocrisy of the
chairman.Russ
Feingold Censure Statement - Wiretapping
But I think the fact that you have proposed legislation on this program
undermines your argument that such presidential authority exists. Because if it
does exist, then nothing that we can legislate, no matter how carefully
crafted, is worth a hill of beans.

April 2, 2006
I lost all respect for McCain when he fought to pass NEW anti torture
legislation AFTER Bush broke all our previous anti torture laws. What made him
think another law would stop Bush?John McCain: The
Sell-Out Express
So, it is with profound disappointment that I say that we have lost John
McCain. He has become what he warned us against. He has turned into a pandering
politician who will stop at nothing to get elected.

John McCain will be speaking at the commencement ceremonies of Liberty
University in May. The founder of Liberty University is Jerry Falwell. McCain
is going to Liberty to kiss the ring of Falwell (to put it politely).

April 3, 2006
Pathetic. The GOP wants to distance themselves from the policies they supported
with their votes. If they didn't like Bush, why don't they investigate
him?Republicans Increasingly
Critical of Bush
"It's open season on him. George Bush has lost trust on too many issues," said
presidential historian Thomas E. Cronin of Colorado College. "We saw it happen
with Johnson, we saw it with Nixon. And now, sadly, we're seeing it with
Bush."

April 2, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
Read the next article to see why they downplayed real science.Nonpartisan
science
Griffin termed as "unfortunate" the action by former NASA public information
officer George Deutsch, who attempted to prevent a National Public Radio
reporter from interviewing Hansen about global warming. According to a
colleague, Deutsch explained that NPR was the most liberal media outlet in the
United States, and his job was to make President Bush look good. The Bush
administration has downplayed the threat associated with climate change.

April 2, 2006Scientists Focus on
Warming Disasters
But many scientists are not so sure that the oncoming train of global warming
can be avoided. Temperatures are going to rise for decades to come because the
chief gas that causes global warming lingers in the atmosphere for about a
century.

"We certainly aren't going to stop that 18-wheeler that's rolling down the
hill. In the short-term, I'm not sure that anyone can stop it," said John
Walsh, director of the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research at
the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

There are limits, experts say, to how much individuals can do. The best we
can hope for is to prevent the worst — world-altering disasters like
catastrophic climate change and a drastic rise in sea levels, say 10 leading
climate scientists interviewed by The Associated Press. They pull out ominous
phrases like "point of no return."

April 2, 2006
If Bush and Cheney were real men, they've have resigned a long time ago.
(McCain's pathetic appeal to the right wing isn't included.)Meet the
Press Transcript: Gen. Tony Zinni
I mean there's a series of disastrous mistakes. We just heard the secretary of
state say these were tactical mistakes. These were not tactical mistakes. These
were strategic mistakes, mistakes of policy made back here. Don't blame the
troops. They're the ones that perform the tactics on the ground. They've been
magnificent. If anything saves this, it will be them.

MR. RUSSERT: Should someone resign?

GEN. ZINNI: Absolutely.

MR. RUSSERT: Who?

GEN. ZINNI: Secretary of defense, to begin with.

MR. RUSSERT: Anyone else?

GEN. ZINNI: Well, I think that, that we—that those that have been
responsible for the planning, for overriding all the, the efforts that were
made in planning before that, that those that stood by and allowed this to
happen, that didn't speak out. And there are appropriate ways within the system
you can speak out, at congressional hearings and otherwise. I think they have
to be held accountable.

March 31, 2006
Powerful. If you read just one article on this site today, read this
one.Testimony
of John Dean on censure
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I have set forth a brief overview of
the testimonial subject where I feel I might be of assistance to the Senate
Judiciary Committee's consideration of Senate Resolution 398 relating to the
censure of President George W. Bush, for (1) unlawful electronic surveillance
of Americans contrary to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978, as amended; (2) the failure of the President to
inform the respective congressional committees of his actions as required by
that law; and (3) the presidents conspicuously misleading statements to the
American people about the nature of his actions along with his dubious legal
arguments claimed as justification for his actions.

March 31, 2006
When liberals said the war was lost they called us names. Today, conservatives
are forced to accept reality.Buckley
Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now a `Failure'
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- William F. Buckley Jr., the longtime conservative
writer and leader, said George W. Bush's presidency will be judged entirely by
the outcome of a war in Iraq that is now a failure.

"Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point
of Iraq," Buckley said in an interview that will air on Bloomberg Television
this weekend. "If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of
his jam."

March 31, 2006
While I admire Feingold for standing up for something, he stood up for the
wrong thing. The only remedy for lawlessness in this White House is impeachment
and removal from office.A History of
Censure
"The Constitution places an obligation upon Congress to impeach a president who
has committed a high crime or misdemeanor," he said. "We're often left with
these ambiguous actions. Even if a censure vote passed, the president would
simply blame it on politics."

March 31, 2006
The Post is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News. I hope their advertisers
sue.NY POST:
Thousands of papers go from presses to the trash
Tens of thousands of New York Posts were dumped at two recycling centers
yesterday morning, just hours after being printed, in a bizarre circulation
ploy that has already come to the attention of newspaper circulation
authorities.

March 31, 2006
Rule #1 of Catholic politics. Cover-up. Scalia lied and was caught. The
Catholic Church tried to protect his lie by covering it up. Have they no
shame?
Catholic Church fires reporter who photographed Scalia's obscene
gesture.
A freelance photographer has been fired by the Archdiocese of Boston's
newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
making a controversial gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on
Sunday.

March 30, 2006
Forget about the article. The idea that US soldiers had to buy their own armor
in the first place is absurd. Bush had years to plan his little war in Iraq and
forgot to buy armor. His military commanders are just as bad.U.S. Army
Bans Use of Privately Purchased Body Armor by Troops
WASHINGTON — Soldiers will no longer be allowed to wear body armor other
than the protective gear issued by the military, Army officials said Thursday,
the latest twist in a running battle over the equipment the Pentagon gives its
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

March 29, 2006
Rule #1 of GOP politics. When the facts are against you, make them
up.California
Republican Shows Fake Picture of Baghdad
March 29, 2006 - Online sleuths can claim another victory. Howard Kaloogian, a
Republican candidate in California's 50th Congressional District, has removed a
picture from his campaign Web site that he claimed was evidence that
journalists are distorting how bad conditions are in Iraq. The photo purported
to show a placid street scene in downtown Baghdad, including a hand-holding
couple in Western dress and shoppers out for a stroll on a cobblestone street
in an unmarred business district.

As it turns out, the photo is a genuine street scene—from Istanbul,
Turkey.

March 29, 2006
Don't fall for it.Bush blames Saddam 39
times in one speech
In fact, most of the animosity and violence we now see is the legacy of Saddam
Hussein. He was a tyrant who exacerbated sectarian divisions to keep himself in
power.

March 1-7, 2006
Everyone is talking about impeachment except the media, the democrats and the
GOP. Why is that?Impeachment moving toward
center stage
"Bush lied about being strong on defense ... his military spending
short-changes combat troops and veterans while enriching cronies and
contractors. Bush lied that his tax cuts for the wealthy would not endanger our
budget surplus, but now we're over $8 trillion in debt, costing every taxpayer
... and unfairly burdening our children." Sheeler added: "I am running for the
U.S. Senate in the name of truth. Our citizens need a clear and unequivocal
voice with the courage and conviction to say: 'The President lied.'"

March 26, 2006
There's one thing that binds Bush's debt and his lost war in Iraq - GOP voters
vote for really dumb people. Until GOP voters demand intelligent politicians
the party will continue to spin out of control.Delta
Force retired command sergeant has fighting words for Bush
For the first thing, our credibility is utterly zero. So we destroyed whatever
credibility we had. ... And I say "we," because the American public went along
with this. They voted for a second Bush administration out of fear, so fear is
what they're going to have from now on.

The harm that has been done is irreparable. There are more than 2,000
American kids that have been killed. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis have
been killed ñ which no one in the U.S. really cares about those people,
do they? I never hear anybody lament that fact. It has been a horror, and this
administration has worked overtime to divert the American public's attention
from it. Their lies are coming home to roost now, and it's gonna fall apart.
But somebody's gonna have to clear up the aftermath and the harm that it's done
just to what America stands for. It may be two or three generations in
repairing.

March 31, 2006
Interesting read. The Congress wasn't informed until after Bush made the deal
and the media caught them. This congress is pathetic.White House Tipped
Lawmakers to Port Story
WASHINGTON - Anxious to avoid new flare-ups over seaport security, the White
House alerted dozens of Republican lawmakers on the eve of a story by The
Associated Press on the subject and provided their staffs with an advance
briefing.

The March 22 briefing involved between 50 and 100 congressional offices,
participants said. It focused, they said, on an AP story being published the
next day that disclosed that the Bush administration was hiring a Hong Kong
conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the
Bahamas.

March 29, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
The law already says the court has a formal role. Bush broke that law and now
Spector (an idiot) will write another law saying what the first law says and
like previous torture laws, Bush will ignore it.Judges
on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program - it's illegal
WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation's most secretive
court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's
domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal
role in overseeing the surveillance program.

March 28, 2006
The GOP continues to house uniformed bigots.Gay couples only
adopt to molest says US Representative
As the gay adoption debate shows no signs of resolution in America, the
Representative for Hendersonville, Debra Maggart, says she believes gay couples
may adopt children for the purpose of molesting them.

March 28, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
At the end of the article is says Bunny Greenhouse, a procurement official for
the military exposed $1 billion of possible fraud from Halliburton. After she
testified, she was fired. Firing a whistleblower is "An Impeachable Offense".
Someone give this 61-year old woman her job back.Halliburton overcharged for
Iraq oil work-report
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Oil services company Halliburton Co.
repeatedly overcharged taxpayers and provided substandard cost reports under a
$1.2 billion contract to restore Iraq's southern oil fields, according to a new
report by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman.

March 28, 2006
This has got to suck. Must Read for all of us who are anti war.My
Brother's War -- Off to Iraq Without the Yellow Ribbons
Editor's Note: What is it like to send a loved one off to an increasingly
unpopular war? David Madrid, 28, is a writer for Silicon Valley De-Bug, a
project of New America Media.

The war in Iraq has been going on for more than a year now, and today it's
just tragedy and scandal that make the headline news. Politicians who once
supported the war now question our involvement in Iraq. My brother is stepping
into a war that is now thought to be without glory or heroism.

March 25, 2006NSA Could've Monitored
Lawyers' Calls
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency could have legally monitored
ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or
attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its
controversial warrantless surveillance program.

March 28, 2006Fitzgerald Will New
White House Indictments
The leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with
attorneys and government officials who have remained close to the probe saying
that a grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior
Bush administration officials.

March 27, 2006
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The entire command structure of the
US military has to be rebuilt - fire the bastards.Pentagon
paying people to make up lies about how well the war in Iraq is going
The Pentagon has once again investigated itself! And—have a seat, get the
smelling salts, hold all hats—the Pentagon has once again concluded the
Pentagon did absolutely nothing wrong and will continue to do so.

In this particularly fascinating case, the Pentagon investigated its own
habit of paying people to make up lies about how well the war in Iraq is going,
and then paying other people to put those lies in the Iraqi media, thus fooling
the Iraqis into thinking everything in their country is tickety-boo. Well, if
we can't fool them, whom can we fool?

March 19, 2006
Healthy gay Americans are kicked out of the military while sick men and women
take their place. Something's wrong with this picture.Some troops
headed back to Iraq are mentally ill
But medical officers for the Army and Marine Corps acknowledge that medicated
service members – and those suffering combat-induced psychological
problems – are returning to War. And anecdotal evidence, bolstered by the
government's own studies, suggest that the number could be significant. A 2004
Army report found that up to 17 percent of combat-seasoned infantrymen
experienced major depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder after
one combat tour to Iraq. Less than 40 percent of them had sought mental-health
care.

March 28, 2006
An Impeachable Offense - torture
Close Gitmo
While the article is about the Brits, this articles adds to the mountains of
evidence that the US violated human rights.Britain
'complicit' in human rights abuses at Camp Delta
Britain has been complicit in the human rights abuses committed by US
authorities at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, according to a report released
today.

Drawing on exhaustive interviews with detainees and evidence from security
services, the dossier gives the complete picture of the British government's
co- operation with the US over a camp it now says should be
closed.

March 27, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
Congress should ask why mail is being opened.
RESPONSES TO JOINT QUESTIONS FROM HOUSE JUDICIARY
25. What is the limiting principle of the President's claimed inherent
authority as commander-in-chief? For example, does this interpretation of the
law authorize the opening of first-class mail of U.S. citizens under the DOJ's
interpretation, and if not, why not?

The Terrorist Surveillance Program intercepts only communications
where one party is outside the United States and there is probable cause to
believe that at least one party is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an
affiliated terrorist organization. The Program does not include the opening of
first-class United States mail. 13.

March 27, 2006
An Impeachable OffenseRESPONSES TO
QUESTIONS FROM CHAIRMAN SENSENBRENNER
9. In a January 6, 2006 letter from Professor Laurence Tribe to
Congressman
Conyers, the Professor states that the National Security Agency program "in
question, far from being authorized by Congress, flies in the fact of an
explicit congressional prohibition and is therefore unconstitutional without
regard to the Fourth Amendment. . . The inevitable conclusion is that the
AUMF did not implicitly authorize what the FISA expressly prohibited. It
follows that the presidential program of surveillance at issue here is a
separation of powers as grave an abuse of executive authority as I can recall
ever having studied."16 Do you agree that FISA "expressly prohibits"
the specific activities authorized under this program?

We disagree with Professor Tribe's assertion that the Terrorist Surveillance
Program runs into an "express congressional prohibition?"

March 27, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
Bush said we'd leave when we're no longer wanted. They've wanted us to leave a
long time ago.Iraq parties demand U.S.
cede control
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling parties demanded U.S. forces cede control of
security on Monday as the government launched an inquiry into a raid on a
Shi'ite mosque that ministers said saw "cold blooded" killings by U.S.-led
troops.

March 27, 2006
More from Bush's war on Islam.
A War Crime and An Impeachable OffenseIraqi Police Say
U.S.-Led Raid Kills at Least 17 at Shiite Mosque
BAGHDAD — At least 17 Iraqis were killed Sunday night when U.S. and Iraqi
special forces stormed a mosque and clashed with Shiite Muslim militiamen,
police officials said, further inflaming the country as its leaders struggled
to form a new government and stem sectarian violence.

An Iraqi police official said the dead were Shiite worshipers at the Mustafa
mosque in northeast Baghdad. State-owned Al Iraqiya television showed more than
a dozen male corpses, at least one of them elderly, laid out in what appeared
to be a prayer room as a grieving man in white robes stepped among them on a
blood-smeared concrete floor.

March 25, 2006
Sanity is slowly returning to American. The Dixie Chicks were banned from many
radio stations because they dared to disagree with Bush. Most of our radio
stations are owned by ONE company - "Clear Channel." It's very conservative and
it's turned our air waves into a wasteland of GOP propaganda. Moral of the
story: "don't speak the truth unless you're willing to give up
everything."Dixie Chicks return to
country radio
Maines told a London audience on the eve of the war in Iraq that the group was
"ashamed" the president was from their home state of Texas.

Back in the U.S., their music was boycotted and the Chicks said they
received death threats, leading them to install metal detectors at their
shows.

The timetable came at an important diplomatic moment. Five days after the
Bush-Blair meeting, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was scheduled to appear
before the United Nations to present the American evidence that Iraq posed a
threat to world security by hiding unconventional weapons.

March 26, 2006
Impeach ScaliaRetired Generals
Want Scalia Off Gitmo Case
The retired generals said Scalia's speech in Switzerland "give rise to the
unfortunate appearance that ... the justice had made up his mind about the
merits" of Hamdan's arguments.

April 3, 2006 issue
Scalia doesn't like the concept of trial by jury. He should be impeached - his
words demand it.Scalia pre judged
case.
"Give me a break." Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo
detainees don't have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions,
Scalia shot back: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is
where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my
son and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury
trial. I mean it's crazy." Scalia was apparently referring to his son Matthew,
who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq. Scalia did say, though, that he was
concerned "there may be no end to this war."

March 25, 2006
While some states ban the word "evolution" from schools, science marches
on.Scientists Find Skull
of Human Ancestor
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Mar 25, 2006 (AP)— Scientists in northeastern
Ethiopia said Saturday that they have discovered the skull of a small human
ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and
modern man.

The hominid cranium found in two pieces and believed to be between 500,000
and 250,000 years old "comes from a very significant period and is very close
to the appearance of the anatomically modern human," said Sileshi Semaw,
director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Ethiopia.

March 24, 2006
The GOP wants more Scalia-type judges - men who make up their minds before they
hear any evidence, kinda like WMD.Far
Right is demonizing the courts
But, as Ginsburg and O'Conner warned, jurists are increasingly targeted for
violence by an irrational fringe of far-right extremists who use the
meaningless term "activist judges" to demonize judges whose decisions they
don't like.

March 26, 2006>
There are a lot of really dumb people in this country and the GOP always wants
their votes. An informed public knows breaking the law is impeachable. An
uninformed public will listen to emotional idiocy.Debating Bush Censure
Serves Dueling Purposes
One group has been conspicuously absent from that consensus: most Democrats in
Washington. Their objections to Feingold's gambit are both substantive and
political. Although sharing his concern about the legality of the NSA program,
some worry about formally sanctioning another president so soon after the
Republican Congress impeached Bill Clinton. Others complain that Feingold's
resolution diverts the debate from the surveillance program itself to whether
it is appropriate to officially rebuke the commander in chief at a time of war
(as Republicans like to put it).

"I will not vote for or support any candidate for Congress or president who
does not make a speedy end to the war in Iraq, and preventing any future war of
aggression a public position in his or her campaign."

The national poll found that 45.9% of US voters agree – 20.1% strongly
agree and 25.8% somewhat agree. Among Democrats 67.1% agreed – 33.3%
strongly, 59.2% of Independents – 25.3% strongly and even 25.7% of
Republicans agreed – 5.5% strongly. The poll was conducted by ICR Survey
Research of Media, Pa., which also polls for ABC News, The Washington Post and
many corporations and research organizations.

March 25, 2006Northeast
turns against Bush
HOLYOKE — To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here
is to journey into New England's impeachment belt. Three of this state's 10
House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of
President Bush.

Thirty miles north, residents in four Vermont villages voted earlier this
month at annual town meetings to buy more rock salt, approve school budgets and
impeach the president for lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction
and for sanctioning torture.

March 25, 2006
An Impeachable Offense
Bush has surrounded himself and filled the courts with corrupt and immoral
judges and lawyers. Nothing is sacred to America's Hitler. The letter in this
article will be online in a day or two.Senate hearing set on move
to censure Bush
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency could have legally monitored
ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or
attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its
controversial warrantless surveillance program.

March 25, 2006
This case was previously listed as impeachable offense. The military
prosecutors in this case say the trial is rigged. Two Prosecutors Say Terror Trials are
RiggedBush's Powers Again Under
Review by Court
WASHINGTON - His wartime powers undercut once before by the Supreme Court,
President Bush could take a second hit in a case in which Osama bin Laden's
former driver is seeking to head off a trial before military officers.

March 24, 2006Senate hearing set on move
to censure Bush
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
announced on Friday it would hold a hearing next week on a call by a Democratic
lawmaker to censure President George W. Bush for his domestic spy program.

March 26, 2006
If you still think republicans stand for something, think about all the
promises they failed to keep. No line item veto, no balanced budget amendment,
no balanced budget, no term limits. Nothing but cheap talk.Republicans on
the Run
In recent weeks, a startling realization has begun to take hold: if the
elections were held today, top strategists of both parties say privately, the
Republicans would probably lose the 15 seats they need to keep control of the
House of Representatives and could come within a seat or two of losing the
Senate as well. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who masterminded the
1994 elections that brought Republicans to power on promises of revolutionizing
the way Washington is run, told Time that his party has so bungled the job of
governing that the best campaign slogan for Democrats today could be boiled
down to just two words: "Had enough?"

March 24, 2006
Domenech is your typical right winger. He and his supporters defended his work
until the end, even though everything he said was a lie. Why didn't they check
it out BEFORE they defended him?Contrition
I want to apologize to National Review Online, my friends and colleagues here
at RedState, and to any others that have been affected over the past few days.
I also want to apologize to my previous editors and writers whose work I used
inappropriately and without attribution. There is no excuse for this - nor is
there an excuse for any obfuscation in my earlier statement.

I hope that nothing I've done as a teenager or in my professional life will
reflect badly on the movement and principles I believe in.

I'm deeply grateful for the love and encouragment (sic) of all those around
me. And although I may not deserve such support, it makes it that much more
humbling at a time like this. I'm a young man, and I hope that in time that I
can earn a measure of the respect that you have given me.

Regards,
Ben

March 24, 2006
The Post lied about Whitewater, lied about WMD and hired a known liar. Impeach
Bush impeach and demand the immediate termination of the editors of the
Post.Bush to Be Impeached for
Plagiarism
Satire: Until Domenech's resignation, Post editors had defended his appointment
as bringing a "fresh new voice" to the paper's Web site. Of Domenech's
contention that Coretta Scott King was a "communist" and that Hillary Clinton
"ordered the hit on Vince Foster," the editor said, "Everyone is entitled to
their own facts."

March 25, 2006
The Washington Post was hood-winked by DomenechWashington
Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Allegations Surface
Ben Domenech, 24, had recently begun writing the blog when Salon.com made the
allegations against him. Jim Brady, executive editor of the Washington Post
blog said, "In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech
plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications
prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched
Tuesday."

March 24, 2006
Kurtz was hood-winked by Domenech.
Kurtz mischaracterized criticism of the Post's Red America blogger
Responding to the widespread criticism of the launch of washingtonpost.com's
Red America weblog by Republican operative Ben Domenech, Howard Kurtz defended
the Washington Post's actions by mischaracterizing the criticism of Domenech
and minimizing the widespread accusations of plagiarism levied against
Domenech. Those same accusations led to Domenech's resignation from
washingtonpost.com on March 24.

March 24, 2006
The "National Review" was hood-winked by Domenech.DOMENECH Plagiarism:
National Review
As we mentioned in our earlier editor's note, staff here at National Review
Online are going through all of the pieces Ben Domenech has written for us (the
most recent of which appears to have been published in 2002) in light of
questions raised in the wake of the debut of his "Red America" blog this week
on the Washington Post's website (from which he has since resigned).

Our review unfortunately raises questions about several other pieces besides
the one we apologized for this morning.

March 25, 2006
Now that just about everyone seems to agree the war in Iraq is lost, it's time
to state once again, that there was never any support for this war. You need
proof? Here it is. When was the last time you heard Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld or
the GOP call for a tax increase to pay for their war? Never. Therefore, they
don't support the war or the troops. (Talk is cheap.)Battle for Baghdad
'has already started'
The battle between Sunni and Shia Muslims for control of Baghdad has already
started, say Iraqi political leaders who predict fierce street fighting will
break out as each community takes over districts in which it is strongest.

"The fighting will only stop when a new balance of power has emerged," Fuad
Hussein, the chief of staff of Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader, said.
"Sunni and Shia will each take control of their own area." He said sectarian
cleansing had already begun.

March 24, 2006
We can thank god these experts don't work for the Bush WH. If they did, their
work would have been censured.Global Model Predicts
Greater Melting
"We need to start serious measures to reduce greenhouse gases within the next
decade," Overpeck says. "If we don't do something soon, we're committed to [13
to 20 feet] of sea level rise in the future." --David Biello

March 24, 2006
The GOP had to choose between real science or pandering to their corporate
bosses. Follow the money.Little
time to avoid big thaw
The US would lose the lower quarter of Florida, southern Louisiana up to Baton
Rouge, and North Carolina's Outer Banks. The ocean would even flood a
significant patch of California's Central Valley, lapping at the front porches
of Sacramento.

These estimates may understate the potential rise. The teams say their
studies provide the first hints that during the last interglacial period, ice
sheets in both hemispheres worked together to raise sea levels, rather than the
Northern Hemisphere's ice alone. This raises concerns that Antarctic melting
might be more severe this time, because additional melt mechanisms may be at
work.

March 25, 2006
Why are conservatives so slow? Any thinking person knew Rumsfeld was inept when
he said he knew exactly where the WMD were located and that statement turned
out to be a lie.Knives out for
Rumsfeld
David Brooks, the paper's prominent conservative columnist, also called for Mr
Rumsfeld's resignation last week, in what appears to be a growing conservative
movement of supporting the war but condemning its execution.

March 24, 2006
When presidents hit bad times, the bottom falls out of their presidencies
unless they advocate policies that a majority of Americans agree with. Clinton
was a prime example. When the GOP tried to impeach him, his poll numbers jumped
to over 60%. Reagan and Bush lost support as soon as the media stopped pushing
their lies.Breaking Down Bush's
Rating by Politics
Bush has lost most approval among pure independents, followed by Republicans,
and then Democrats. He has dropped significantly among all party-by-ideology
groups. Bush's support among pure independents has been cut in half, from 43%
to 21%.

The net result of these changes is that independents' support for Bush is
now quite similar to that of conservative Democrats (17%), and to a lesser
degree, moderate Democrats (10%). Liberal Democrats are nearly universal in
their opposition to Bush, just 4% approve of him.

March 20, 2006
The media pushed the GOP take-over around the clock in 1994. It's starting
again, this time for the dems.NEWSWEEK
POLL: Fifty Percent of Americans Would Like Democrats to Take Control of
Congress
NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A majority of Americans polled would like to
see Democrats take control of Congress in this year's elections, according to
the new Newsweek Poll, while 34 percent would like Congress to remain in
Republican hands. In light of recent events, such as the Dubai ports
controversy and the upcoming third anniversary of the Iraq war, only 36 percent
of Americans approve of the way the president is handling his job -- the lowest
score George W. Bush has received in the Newsweek Poll.

March 20, 2006
The war in about democracy but democracy in the Middle East allows the
government to kill Christians.Afghan faces
death penalty for Christian faith
An Afghan who has renounced his Islamic faith for Christianity faces the death
penalty under Afghan law in a throwback to the brutal Taleban regime.

Abdul Rahman, 41, is being prosecuted for an "attack on Islam", for which
the punishment under Afghanistan's draft constitution, is death by hanging.

March 19, 2006
The media remains woefully inept. The war is a success. It's singular purpose
was to increase oil and gas prices to record levels and keep there as long as
possible. Oil man Bush and his friends couldn't be happier. They're raping the
American people every time we fill up our cars or heat our homes.Des
Moines Register: Time to leave Iraq
What was originally thought to be a conflict involving a few insurgents trying
to drive out American forces has morphed into something else. The insurgency is
no longer about the American occupation. Iraqis are slaughtering Iraqis in a
vicious cycle of suicide-bomb atrocities and revenge assassinations.

It's a harsh thing to say, but if Sunni and Shiite Iraqis insist on killing
one another, let it be without American troops standing in the crossfire.

March 21, 2006
The small thinkers in the WH (Rove) didn't plan for losing the war. We lost
this pup a long time ago.Iraqi turmoil puts Mideast
on edge
The Iraq invasion jolted complacent regimes, especially as it coincided with
nascent attempts by Arab democracy campaigners to push for reform. But, says
Jordanian political commentator Rami Khouri, "the way the American adventure in
Iraq has gone has emboldened many Arab [regimes] to defy the US because they
feel that it has gone badly in Iraq and the Americans are not likely to do this
again."

March 21, 2006
Tillman was murdered and another cover-up to cover up the
cover-up.2 Years
After Soldier's Death, Family's Battle Is With Army
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Patrick K. Tillman stood outside his law office here,
staring intently at a yellow house across the street, just over 70 yards away.
That, he recalled, is how far away his eldest son, Pat, who gave up a
successful N.F.L. career to become an Army Ranger, was standing from his fellow
Rangers when they shot him dead in Afghanistan almost two years ago.

March 19, 2006
A year later he decides to tell us the truth. Not much courage
there.Sen.
Hagel: 'Low grade' civil war going on in Iraq for at least last six
months
SEN. HAGEL: Well, first, I think prime minister -- the former prime minister is
correct. I think we have had a low-grade civil war going on in Iraq,
certainly the last six months, maybe the last year. Our own generals
have told me that privately, George. So that's a fact. And for us to walk away
from that or try to hue this up with some rosy veneer --

March 21, 2006
Another PR disaster. When will the military get its shit together?Video details US attack on
Iraqi family
The video, obtained by Time magazine and repeatedly aired by Arab televisions
throughout the day, also showed bodies of women and children in plastic bags on
the floor of what appeared to be a morgue. Men were seen standing in the middle
of bodies, some of which were covered with blankets before being placed in a
pickup truck.

The images were broadcast a day after residents of Haditha, 140 miles west
of Baghdad, told The Associated Press that American troops entered homes and
shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old girl, after a
roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine.

Rounds, who won his first run for governor in 2002, had looked to be
unopposed until recently. Three Democrats are now mulling a run, including two
who have officially announced. Candidates have until April 4 to file nominating
petitions to be on the ballot for the June 6 primary.

March 19, 2006
From this poll it appears that anyone who panders to the right can expect at
least a 14% drop in the polls. We need to watch a bit longer to see if it hold
up.Anti
abortion governor takes big hit in the poll
Gov. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) enjoyed a 76 percent approval rating in his state as
recently as Sept. 19, 2005. On Feb. 13, 2006, his approval had slipped slightly
to 72 percent.

Then Gov. Rounds signed a bill that outlaws most abortions in the state this
month. On March 13, SurveyUSA conducted a fresh poll that shows his approval
ratings have fallen all the way down to 58 percent in just one month, with 38
percent disapproving and 5 percent unsure.

March 19, 2006
Weak-kneed generals also need to be fired - then everyone who follows their
illegal orders.The case
against Rumsfeld
DURING World War II, American soldiers en route to Britain before D-Day were
given a pamphlet on how to behave while awaiting the invasion. The most
important quote in it was this: "It is impolite to criticize your host; it is
militarily stupid to criticize your allies."

By that rule, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not competent to lead our
armed forces. First, his failure to build coalitions with our allies from what
he dismissively called "old Europe" has imposed far greater demands and risks
on our soldiers in Iraq than necessary. Second, he alienated his allies in our
own military, ignoring the advice of seasoned officers and denying subordinates
any chance for input.

March 12, 2006.Impeach Bush?
Not now, Mom, for a lot of reasons
This administration has authorized torture, though the United States has signed
conventions that forbid it. It has authorized warrantless wiretapping and
surveillance, though it is plainly against the law.

Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper
"I'm a Nazi." Like it's dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a
liberal"

March 14, 2006Most
Americans Say Bush Has No Clear Plan for Iraq
PRINCETON, NJ -- Only days before the third anniversary of the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush yesterday gave the first in a series
of speeches designed to convince the American public he has a strategy for
victory. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted over this past weekend
suggests it will be tough going for the president. Only 32% of Americans
believe he has a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq, while 67% say
he does not.

March 16, 2006Will Democrats Take
Control?
If there is not a significant change in the public's mood over the next several
months, a low opinion of Congress coupled with an unpopular Republican
president could make Republicans very vulnerable in the fall.